Departmental visiting speaker seminars

Archaeology Seminars, 2009-10.

Schedule.

N.B. Talks will be held in the John Wymer Laboratory, Avenue Campus (65A/1205) at 5 p.m., unless advised otherwise.

Semester One.

Thursday, 5 November 2009.
John Wymer Laboratory, 5 p.m.
Dr. William Davies (Archaeology, University of Southampton)
Was ‘behavioural modernity’ inevitable?  Evaluating innovation and inventiveness in the later Palaeolithic. 

Thursday, 19 November 2009.
John Wymer Laboratory, 5 p.m.
Dr. Susanne Hackenbeck (Archaeology, University of Southampton)
Go West, young woman!  Marriage and mobility in the early medieval period. 

Thursday, 26 November 2009.
John Wymer Laboratory, 5 p.m. 
Dr. Nathan Schlanger (INRAP, Paris)
Title tbc [the social and scientific contexts of 19thC Palaeolithic research]. 

Thursday, 10 December 2009.
John Wymer Laboratory, 5 p.m.
Dr. Tim Williams (Institute of Archaeology, UCL)
Title tbc [research at the site of ancient Merv]. 

 
Semester 2

Thursday, 4 February 2010.
John Wymer Laboratory, 5 p.m.
Prof. Richard Hingley (Dept. of Archaeology, University of Durham)
Tales of the Frontier: Hadrian’s Wall, myth and history. 

Thursday, 18 March 2010.
John Wymer Laboratory, 5 p.m.
Prof. Alison Wylie (University of Washington, USA)
What counts as Archaeological Evidence?  Legacies of collaboration. 

Thursday, 17 March 2009
Dr. Sandy Budden (Archaeology, University of Southampton)
Practising skill: people making pots making people.